The Toro Co. and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) are offering the Toro Championship Tournament Training Program for GCSAA student and assistant superintendent members. This year, three winners will experience first-hand what it takes to prepare a course for tournament play.
In June 2008, one GCSAA assistant superintendent and one student member will travel to La Jolla, Calif. for the U.S. Open Championship at Torrey Pines. In addition, one assistant superintendent will be selected to travel to Bloomfield Hills, Mich., in August 2008 for the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club. Each winner will help the staff prepare the course for the event. Toro will provide all travel and accommodation.
Since the start of the program, 32 GCSAA members have been chosen to participate in a PGA Championship, U.S. Open or Ryder Cup event.
“We established the Toro Championship Tournament Training Program to bring the experience and knowledge of major tournament preparation to GCSAA junior members,” says John McPhee, director of golf marketing at Toro. “The experience is designed to expose superintendents at the beginning of their careers to a variety of cultural practices and management techniques that make major tournaments a success.”
Applications for the program will be available the week of October 29 at www.gcsaa.org A typed, 500-word essay will be part of the selection process. All applications and essays must be submitted to the GCSAA, postmarked no later than Feb. 10, 2008. An independent panel of judges will select finalists, and the site superintendents will select the winners. The Toro Company will notify the winners in March 2008. For more information on Toro golf equipment, parts and financing visit www.toro.com/golf; contact your local Toro distributor at 800-803-8676; or write to Toro Commercial Equipment at 8111 Lyndale Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55420.
